03359cam a2200361 i 4500 418819764 TxGeo 20200214120000.0 180319s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018012383 9781616207922 hbk. 1616207922 hbk. (OCoLC)1030446786 TxGeo rda Gay, Ross, 1974- Essays Selections. The book of delights / Ross Gay. Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019. xii, 274 pages ; 19 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier My birthday, kinda -- Inefficiency -- Flower in the curb -- Blowing it off -- Hole in the head -- Remission still -- Praying mantis -- The negreeting -- The high-five from strangers, etc. -- Writing by hand -- Transplanting -- Nicknames -- But, maybe... -- "Joy is such a human madness" -- House party -- Hummingbird -- Just a dream -- "That's some Bambi shit"... -- The irrepressile: the gratitudes -- Tap tap -- Coffee without the saucer -- Lily on the pants -- Sharing a bag -- Umbrella in the café -- Beast mode -- Airplane rituals -- Weirdly untitled -- Pecans -- The do-over -- Infinity -- Ghost -- Nota bene -- "Love me in a special way" -- "Stay," by Lisa Loeb -- Stacking delights -- Donny Hathaway on Pandora -- "To spread the sweetness of love -- Baby, baby, baby -- "REPENT OR BURN" -- Giving my body to the cause -- Among the rewards of my sloth... -- Not grumpy cat -- Some stupid shit -- Not only... -- Micro-gentrification: WE BUY GOLD -- Reading palms -- The sanctity of trains -- Bird feeding -- Kombucha in mid-century glass -- Hickories -- Annoyed no more -- Toto -- Church poets -- Public lying down -- Babies, seriously -- My life, my life, my life, my life in the sunshine -- Incorporation -- Botan rice candy -- Understory -- "Joy is such a human madness": the duff between us -- "It's just the day I'm having" -- The purple cornets of spring -- The volunteer -- Fishing an eyelash: two or three cents on the virtues of poetry reading -- Found things -- Found things (2) -- Cuplicking -- Bobblehead -- The jenky -- The crow's ablutions -- Flowers in the hands of statues -- An abundance of public toilets -- The wave of unfamiliars -- Not for nothing -- Bindweed...delight? -- Dickhead -- Ambiguous signage sometimes. Heart to heart -- Caution: bees on bridge -- Tomato on board -- Purple-handed -- Name: Kayte Young; phone number: 555-867-5309 -- Still processing -- Fireflies -- My scythe Jack -- Pawpaw grove -- Loitering -- Touched -- Scat -- Get thee to the nutrient cycle! -- Pulling carrots -- Filling the frame -- Reckless air quotes -- Judith Irene Gay, aged seventy-six today! -- Rothko backboard -- The mafia lights -- The carport -- My garden (book): -- Black bumblebees! -- Grown -- Coco-baby -- My birthday. "Author Ross Gay spent a year writing almost-daily essays about the things, large and small, that delight him"-- Provided by publisher. 20200310. Gay, Ross 1974- Life. Joy. American essays. Essays. QS5